Yu,1908165438+10, was born in a peasant family in Lipu town. The profound history and culture of his hometown, rich local arts, folk operas and China's paintings and calligraphy have enriched and nourished this gifted and sensitive teenager, making him like to write and draw since he was a child.
1924 Spring, at the age of, 17, went to Hangzhou Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts and Zhejiang Art College to study western painting. Because of his poor family, Yu returned to his hometown after only two and a half years' suspension, but he never gave up the painting and calligraphy art he loved. In the next ten years, Yu worked as an art teacher in Zhuji Primary School, Lipu Primary School and primary and secondary schools in Xiaoshan, Shengxian and Hangzhou. During this period, he also painted in Zhuji, Caota and Hangzhou. From then on, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression began. At that time, Yu, who was teaching in Dadong Primary School, picked up a paintbrush and a meat cleaver and passionately created posters for resisting Japan and saving the nation. At that time, the murals on both sides of the school were greatly anti-Japanese, written by Yu.
/kloc-in the autumn of 0/940, he left his hometown and went to Yongkang, Songyang, Nanping and Longquan with Zhejiang Branch of Fuxing Commercial Company. "He was tired day and night and looked back at his hometown." His feelings of worrying about the country and homesickness are fully revealed and pinned in his works.
1945 In March, Zhejiang University Longquan Branch initiated the establishment of the printing group "Long Yuan Printing Society" in Hejin to study printing and wrote a glorious page in the history of seal cutting in China. After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, Yu moved back to Hangzhou with the company. He worked in the West Lake Museum (now Zhejiang Museum) and the Hangzhou People's Education Museum, and then settled in Hangzhou. At this time, because of his stable life and extensive friends, especially his study with Mr. Huang, Pan Tianshou and others, he benefited a lot and the art of calligraphy and painting made a qualitative leap. In the early 1950s, Yu set up his own "Jinshi Painting and Calligraphy Studio" in Hangzhou, devoted to the research and creation of national traditional paintings.
65438-0956 Join Zhejiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Based on the development of traditional painting, he went deep into sketching in eastern Zhejiang, collected creative materials, integrated life, tradition and reference, explored a new way of modern Chinese painting art, and created a number of works full of the spirit of the times.
From 65438 to 0959, Yu became the first professional painter in Zhejiang Traditional Chinese Painting Laboratory after the founding of New China, and a professional painter of Zhejiang Artists Association. With strong creative enthusiasm, he faced life directly, went deep into nature, accumulated materials, enriched creative themes, sought a new artistic conception of landscape painting, and echoed the spirit of the socialist era.
1962 created a huge landscape painting "The Yanling of Fuchun River came to the fishing platform" for the Zhejiang Hall of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Since then, China has faced ten years of catastrophe. In this decade, no matter what kind of blow and torture he encountered, his persistence in art never wavered. Although living in poverty, he always prepared for political reform in the new period with firm belief and diligent practice. At the end of the ten-year turmoil, Yu was almost blind, but the brush in his hand never stopped. In his artistic life in his later years, he surpassed himself and entered a new realm. The landscape of his hometown, Yandang, West Lake and Fuchunjiang are the most painted themes in his later years. In his mind, as a painter, he should be a "portrait of mountains and rivers", vivid for the times. Throughout his life, Yu insisted on "being honest, being true and being honest", "being poor is indifferent" and "being lonely is forgetting honor and disgrace" as his self-discipline proverbs. He devoted his life to art and worked silently for the development of national art for 60 years. Until his last breath, his personality, artistic virtue and artistic creation have won people's admiration and admiration.
1March 2, 984, died suddenly on. His exquisite artistic creation throughout his life is a precious artistic legacy for future generations.